Sorry mate. Sold mine about a year ago. I pretty much stick to my PC and xbox for gaming. Got rid of my PS2 as well.
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Anybody Still playing Dreamcast
by Legendary U.2.K. inif you own a dc, you should already know that seganet is free till jan 1th 2003... so join me online for the following games: nfl2k1, nba2k1, 4x4evolution(servers is down right now), & ncaa2k2.....
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An Astounding Claim/Bionic Eye
by metatron ini try to keep up with all the exploding developments in science.
but this one shocked me.. the sept. 2002 issue of wired magazine is claiming that a bionic.
eye has been created that is interfaced directly into the visual.
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We can rebuild him. Stronger, faster, better than before.
All I want to see in my lifetime is an interface like the Matrix where you can download information directly into your brain. Please, please, please.
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Use the Name of God in Vain?
by patio34 ini hope you're having a great tuesday!
i was thinking that every once in a while i say something shocking (to an xjw), like "jesus h.
christ!
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Which God?
I'll Jesus H. Christ all time along with Jehovah you son of a bitch! I say that so I don't offend Shiva or Ganesh. It also keeps me in good with Zuess and Buddha.
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BRAIN DEAD KINGDUMB WITNEESES
by minimus init truly amazes me to see how so many jw's are brain dead.
i spent the last few days with some witnesses and they complained about this elder, that congregation,these rules that are enforced in one congregation but not another, how truly boring the meetings are, how holy spirit could not have appointed brother so-and-so.
i heard how an elder in a nearby congregation is really a thief and a liar.
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Welcome Blueroom, I hope everything is going ok for you now? I was DF'd in 1990 and it took me about 9 years to kick all of the JW programming. Your story, minimus, does sound like all the stuff I'd heard back in the 80's. It is always easier to point the finger at someone else than yourself. It is also often less painful.
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IS There a Bigfoot/Sasquatch?
by TR inreading the "man on the moon" thread made me wonder about "bigfoot"(yes, men did go to the moon).
anyhoo, what are your thoughts?
i've seen countless tv specials and movies about the big stinky dude, and have read several books in the past.
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I would go with yes on the Yeti and no on Bigfoot. I believe it has already been proven that the famous bigfoot video has already been proven a fake. While there is no video of the Yeti, sightings of it have been made by people who weren't even looking for it. Kinda weak I know but I try to keep an open mind about these kind of things with a 25% bit of pure skepticism.
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JW at my door
by Crystal injw is at my door ,,i gave her my piece of mind now by bf is doing his thing!
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Nothing like slamming your head against a brick wall.
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Bible: God's Word?/ WTBTS: The Truth?
by AGuest inthen you must... know the truth!
thus, as my lord said, "you will know the truth... and the truth... will set you free.
therefore, if the son (the truth) sets you free, you will truly be free!
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My Pagan self agreeing with jjrizo what is this world coming to. For me the Bible is too convoluted and contradictory but that is me. I find the Toa Te Ching to be much more rewarding. However, that is just me. If someone else wants to live their lives according to the Bible then so be it. All of the problems come into play when one person thinks they are more right than the other person. It seems the Bible has helped AGuest be a mellow cool guy/girl. Nothin wrong with that. As for whether the Bible is the word of God? I don't think so nor do I think the scriptures that AGuest is fond of are the word of God. But again that is me.
Blessed Be, AGuest
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Son plays football, even his old man gets a job!!
by LyinEyes inas many of you know we just put all three of our kids in school , their first day will be monday.
my son has been practicing for a week, 7 am for 2 hrs and again at 7pm for 2 hrs.
well it has exhausted him, and he is loving every minute of it.
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Awesome news!! I'm glad you are finally living life. It's good to see that everything is coming together for you and your family. I wish other JW's could learn what it takes to really be the happiest people on earth.
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Is the Bible Really the Word of God?
by gumby inis the bible really the word of god?
while sitting in my garage having a smoke, i reached up to an old publication (which i keep handy on my shelves).
it was the book stated above.
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I think your questions have been answered Gumby they just aren't the answers you wanted. I'll try to break it down into specifics but some of the questions border on circular logic. By the way, JanH is a thousand times better at this type of debate than I am.
1. Jesus WAS a historical figure as writers other than christians testify. Wether he DID THE THINGS the bible said he did, OR WAS who the bible said he was.......is the debate.
Not a question but it is a debate.
2.The 4 Gospels all harmonize even though written by different writers
The Gospels don't actually harmonize, Francois made this point as well. In fact most of the Bible doesn't harmonize.
http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/donald_morgan/inconsistencies.html
3. The jewish TALMUD, though clashing with the gospels in that they argue in the Means by which Jesus performed miracles, do not DENY they happened.
This is like me writing a book on how the world is flat. Then someone else who also agrees the world is flat writes a book about the same thing but disagrees on where the water goes. I can use his book to prove my point and he can use mine to prove his so one of them must be true.
4. Celsus, a philosopher of the second century C.E., denied Jesus as divine in that his ORIGIN was of humble begginings....poor, humble, betrayed, suferred, being put to death. The argument is he believed Jesus existed.....but he used his personal opinion on how he VIEWED him.
As already stated, and I don't have the link anymore, Jesus was not Deified until a few hundred years after he was dead. I can believe that Einstein existed but that doesn't mean that he preformed miracles or was the son of God.
5.Unlike mythical writings, the bible is built on people who REALLY existed, and PLACES that exist to this day.
The Bible is built on Mythical writings. It has already been proven that allot of stories in the Bible are based on Pagan mythology. The easiest example is the story of Noah and the Flood. This is a blatant rip off an earlier Babylonian mythology of the Goddess and the God warned a man about an upcoming flood, his name? Yep, Noah. Even today movies are made with real events as the backdrop and the author takes liberties with the rest. Yes, even back in the day there was artistic liscense. Also, the best way to make a lie believable is to include 80% truth.
6. Luke 3:1,2 names 7 political and religious officials who actually lived in the time Jesus lived. "This can be verified by consulting history books" say's the article on P.67 (thought that was interesting!)
See the last part of the above comment.
7. The writers freely admited their waeknesses. Would writers who are fabricating stories, speak so humbly?
J.R.R Tolken was a humble man as well. Does this mean that the Hobbit is true?
8. Last...the book also mentioed the THEME of the bible running throughout it's pages and say's in affect...."What are the chances of one theme weaving itself throughout the bible over that many years.
See the link above for Biblical consitencies. The stories of the Bible come from the same region and were originally verbal stories. You can take three seperate books/ideologies from China. Confusionism, Taoism, and Buddhism all share a common theme and spawned at different times in different regions of China.
I hope that is a little more of what you're looking for. However, I must say it has been awhile since I've had this debate so I'm a bit rusty.
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Is the Bible Really the Word of God?
by gumby inis the bible really the word of god?
while sitting in my garage having a smoke, i reached up to an old publication (which i keep handy on my shelves).
it was the book stated above.
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The best way to tell a lie is to have it contain 80% truth. There is hardly any harmony in the Bible. It should also be noted that all passages in the Bible, that have to do with Jesus, are from second hand sources and verbal stories. Haven't you played that game where you sit in a big circle and someone whispers a phrase in someone's ear and by the time it gets to the last person it is not even close to the original phrase. If memory serves me correctly Jesus was not deified until a few hundred years after he died. There is no other cultural writings from that area of the world that comfirm that any miracles were ever performed. The Talmud is also, just like the Bible, a Jewish religous doctrine so it doesn't count. Of the historical accuracy, there is little debate as to whether events were propogandized by the Hebrews. The celestial events that were recorded in the bible and by other cultures do not prove the divine nature of the Bible any more than the bible proves the Divine nature of the chinese confusionism.
There are hundreds of reasons why the Bible is nothing more than an old book written by an old civilization to prove their own divinity. All that being said, what does the bible say to you? It isn't always important what others think. If the words inside that book speak to you then by all means go with it. Just try to be logical enough to accept that the source is flawed.